# Poll: Are you a top-down or bottom up investor?
**URL:** https://community.sharesight.com/t/poll-are-you-a-top-down-or-bottom-up-investor/1439
**Category:** Discussions & news
**Created:** [10 October 2023 01:16 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/poll-are-you-a-top-down-or-bottom-up-investor/1439 "2023-10-10T01:16:03Z")
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### Author:  [@RickyYeo](https://community.sharesight.com/u/RickyYeo)
#### Post date: [10 October 2023 01:16 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/poll-are-you-a-top-down-or-bottom-up-investor/1439/1 "2023-10-10T01:16:03Z")
As the title said, do you use a top-down or bottom-up approach for investing?
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.sharesight.com/t/poll-are-you-a-top-down-or-bottom-up-investor/1439/1))_
Top-down investing begins with an analysis of the broader macroeconomic environment and then narrows down towards individual assets or securities.
Bottom-up investing begins with a detailed analysis of individual stocks or securities, assessing their fundamentals, financial performance, and growth potential, and then using this information to make investment decisions.
If you are a top-down investor, what economic indicators do you looked at? For example, interest rates, geopolitical events, inflation, commodities prices etc?
If you are a bottom-up investor, what do you focus on? Growth, debts, return on capital (ROIC), technicals, or ratios like P/E, EV/EBIT etc?
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### Author:  [@Lew](https://community.sharesight.com/u/Lew)
#### Post date: [11 October 2023 01:00 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/poll-are-you-a-top-down-or-bottom-up-investor/1439/2 "2023-10-11T01:00:42Z")
Top-down. Factors are proprietary. Do you think a broader range of choices might be more informative: Bottom-up, Top-down, Fundamental, Technical? Some may choose all four.